You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this piracy

Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by MarkG509 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:36AM (#34981671)

Linux Mint comes with Hypnotix that contains free feeds for 974 TV channels world-wide, and 171 US-En Movie channels. Of these are nearly all of Pluto TV's channels, many of the free movie channels available on Roku, and even a few channels I can get over the air.

Given my browser's built-in privacy 'stuff' (plus uBlock Origin and uMatrix), and the block lists in my firewall, the funny thing is that I leak the most PII data watching OTA TV via the HDHomeRun app on my phone (I prefer their app to VLC on my phone). MPA needs to take a time-out, maybe catch up with technology.

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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by ElfinTrousers on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @09:16AM (#34982613)

> MPA needs to take a time-out, maybe catch up with technology.

Look it takes a lot of time and effort to make 12,000 completely indistinguishable superhero movies a year. They can't stay up on every little thing like "advances in technology", "changes in social attitudes", and "what legally constitutes piracy".

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Re:You can watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA considers this... by mdaniel on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:44AM (#34984464)

For those who are similarly curious, https://github.com/linuxmint/hypnotix#tv-channels-and-media-... says

> By default, Hypnotix is configured with one IPTV provider called Free-TV: https://github.com/Free-TV/IPTV

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